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incorrect sensor data on gpu?

my gpu is showing a higher temprature than it is the sensor is currently showing that my Nvidia Geforce 7000m on my acer aspire 5520 is running at 115c (which is the throttle temprature) but it was showing higher (i actually put it in the freezer i know how bad an idea that was) but even after being in a -1f freezer for 3 hours it showed being 95c even tho the cpu and hdd sensors showed 40c... this is under ubuntu with the sensor applet... vista is unbootable becouse the gpu sensor shows it too hot and shuts the pc off... is there a way to calabrate/disable/repair the sensor? cause its out of warenty

Update:

crawled through the bios... it was designed for a less techincal use as the options for doing anything relateing to my problem doesnt exisit but i know it must have aces to it becouse it shuts off when the sensor reaches a sertan point

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You could always check in the BIOS for the options to power off automatically when the X reaches X temperature. But I wouldn't. I mean, I've been doing this for a while and I've never seen that. I would just assume something is broken, either hardware or that poor excuse for software. :P

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